Młodzież akademicka. Więzi z państwem i społeczeństwem – międzynarodowe badania porównawcze. Pomysł, warsztat metodologiczny i przebieg badań

This article presents the most important aims and conduction of the “Patriotic Studies” project,carried by us. Research was carried out in Poland, Russia, Turkey, Georgia and Romania. Wepresent the foundations of our decisions, and methodological solutions in fields of: aims,identification of the most important ideas, state of knowledge, research inspirations. We presentthe chosen research method, sample, and tested environments. In addition, the article containsthe reconstruction of selected aspects of Pierre Bourdieu’s theory, on which we based ourstrategy.The described research has the comparative and international nature. Three main aims wereestablished: measuring the level and scope of identification with the state and society among theuniversity students, measuring the level of social, economic and cultural capital of the examinedyouth and examining the correlation between them and the level of identification with the stateand society manifested by the respondents, as well as determining and examining the possible correlations between the patriotic attitude (the degree of identification with the state andsociety) and the field of study, the country of residence and the level of symbolic capital.